Wu Shaoxiang, Walking Wealth 2009, bronze, height 200cm,
Collection of Jiang Xi Art Museum, Nanchang, China - Studio
WU / CC BY-SA
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Natural Law
There’s been an emergence in Trump’s most recent rhetoric of belief in a natural law which states something like the following:
The rich deserve to get more because they have more.
The poor deserve to get less because they have less.
The rich stay rich; the poor stay poor.
This is the way things are supposed to be.
So simple.
But is it true?
Lifeboats
The lives of the rich are more valuable because they are powerful.
They are powerful because they are rich.
In the event of a disaster, they deserve to be the first on the lifeboats.
The rest of us can drown.
That’s really how it works. Haven’t you seen Titanic?
Capitalism
The rich enforce a system that keeps them rich.
Conversely, the same system keeps the poor poor.
It is a system designed to do that. It’s what it does.
The system can’t be changed because then the rich would get less money.
And if anything happens to the rich, the poor have to go down with them.
The rich will see to that.
Triage
Sacrifices will have to be made to save the system.
The poor will make those sacrifices.
The rich will reap the benefits.
If many poor people die, those people are noble.
They have selflessly given their life for the cause!
The rich will live on their safe estates and hire poor people to wait on them.
They will applaud the noble poor.
They will live.
Deep Conditioning
This system persists because we believe in it.
It’s our national creed.
It’s taught to us from infancy.
It rules everything around us.
But is it true?
